Persuasive and illuminating, 'A Theory of Adaptation' is a bold rethinking of how adaptation works across all media and genres that may put an end to the age-old question of whether the book was better than the movie, or the opera, or the theme park.
Theatre in Health and Care examines theatre practice that takes place within a range of health and care settings, from medical training to advocacy projects for service users. Drawing on a range of case studies, the book provides insights into working practices as well as posing…
by Stillman, Robert E., MARCO Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Knoxville, MARCO Institute, Medieval and Renaissance Curriculum and Outreach Program), symposium ; 3 (Knoxville)
fromStudies in medieval and reformation traditions
No volume about the spectacles and public performances of early modern England could pretend to treat comprehensively a body of materials so conspicuously vast. Rather than efforts to survey the territory, these essays are best understood in the original sense of the term as ess…
Drawing on insights from various disciplines (philology, archaeology, art) as well as from performance and reception studies, this volume shows how a heightened awareness of performance can enhance our appreciation of Greek and Roman theatre.
Examining the ways in which drama and theatre has been applied to different community and educational contexts, this study provides an overview of the theoretical concepts underpinning practice in applied drama and theatre and examines a range of practices in the light of contem…
Examining the ways in which drama and theatre has been applied to different community and educational contexts, this study provides an overview of the theoretical concepts underpinning practice in applied drama and theatre and examines a range of practices in the light of contem…
"Covering the period 1879 to 1959, and taking in everything from Ibsen to Beckett, this book is volume one of a two-part comprehensive examination of the plays, dramatists, and movements that comprise modern world drama. Contains detailed analysis of plays and playwrights, conne…
"Covering the period 1879 to 1959, and taking in everything from Ibsen to Beckett, this book is volume one of a two-part comprehensive examination of the plays, dramatists, and movements that comprise modern world drama. Contains detailed analysis of plays and playwrights, conne…
The last human venue marks the location and moment of human beings' awareness of their own eventual extinction. Taking this sober end as an affirmative starting point Theatre, Intimacy & Engagement explores ways in which performance operates as an exciter of sentience, kick-star…
This text unravels politics from theatre in order to propose a new means to politicise performance. The last human venue is the location where the sense of one's aliveness, ethical associations and collective potential is kick-started through the shock of theatrical affects.
After Dickens is both a performative reading of Dickens the novelist and an exploration of the potential for adaptive performance of the novels themselves. John Glavin conducts a historical inquiry into Dickens's relation to the theatre and theatricality of his own time, and unc…
After Dickens is both a performative reading of Dickens the novelist and an exploration of the potential for adaptive performance of the novels themselves. John Glavin conducts a historical inquiry into Dickens's relation to the theatre and theatricality of his own time, and unc…
